Paper without trees: Colombia's environmental triumph.

Discusses Colombia's environmental triumph of creating paper from sugar cane waste, instead of destroying trees. The sugar-cane-based paper come primarily from plants near Cali--in the midst of Colombia's sugar fields. American firms, W.R. Grace & Co. and International Paper; Background on developing paper products from sugar cane; The percentages of tree fiber needed for paper production; Propal as the second largest paper plant in the world; More.